Archive: 16 March – 22 March 2009

Pupils from Katine primary school, in Uganda, are trained to use computers in the community media centre in the sub-county. Photograph: Dan Chung

On Wednesday 25 March, pupils from Katine primary school, in north-east Uganda, and All Saints' Church of England primary school, in north-west London, will be taking part in a live online chat on the blog. It will be the Katine project's first online chat between schools

Just days after the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, told Teso farmers to forget cattle and focus on intensive farming to put food on the table, African governments have been criticised for failing to support the 250 million people across the continent who rely on livestock for survival

The Teso insurgency: Much of village life in Katine, north-east Uganda, is shaded by the darker memories of the insurgency. And knowing some of the violence came from within the Teso community makes it harder to bear, writes Ben Jones